A large limestone boulder, 60 cm in height, had been set into the floor in the center of the shrine's interior chamber.
The fact that shrines were present on the landscape certainly held meaning for people living in the neighbourhood.
I question though the verb "chose"; in many attested cases the priests of those temples judged to be shrines were given no choice at all.
Still-born infants were brought to shrines for baptism - it seems that the ' miracle ' of resuscitation was not necessary.
In 1745, control of 440 sites outside the gates of temples and shrines and 227 cho within their precincts were transferred to the city magistrate.
Home to a nomadic hippy, it was encrusted with a bristling baroque fantasy of plastic toys, plastic landscapes, silly scenes and shrines.
Women pray at naga shrines in hopes of conceiving a child.
Higher and lower degrees of connectedness are indicated by the placement of communal facilities and shrines.
